The Long Goodbye

Based On the book by Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye is a 1973 American satirical neo-noir film directed by Robert Altman, adapted by Leigh Brackett from Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel of the same name. The film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe along with Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, and Jim Bouton, and has an early, uncredited appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The story's setting was moved from the 1940s to 1970s Hollywood. The film has been called "a study of a moral and decent man cast adrift in a selfish, self-obsessed society where lives can be thrown away without a backward glance ...

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Release date:

March 8, 1973

Director:

Robert Altman

Cast:

Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin

Genre:

Crime, Mystery, Drama, Neo-noir, Film noir

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1973 in adaptations